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ASCA has discovered evidence that particles are accelerated
to super-high energies in the remnants of a supernova that appeared
in the year 1006. This has become the most powerful candidate
for a cosmic ray acceleration site. 
X-rays from the earliest period of the
universe have been detected. This had been possible because of
the dense gasses that surround such stars. This indicates that
violent particle acceleration and heating occurred in the birth
of those stars also. It has been confirmed that the same kind
of particle acceleration occurs at the origin of giant stellar
jets in a group of active galaxies called a blazer. It has been
determined that the magnetic field there is from 0.1 to 1 gauss.
We discovered X-rays, in radio lobes of several galaxies, for the first time. These X-rays are generated by reverse Compton scattering high-velocity electrons of cosmic background microwave radiation. The magnetic field strength was determined.
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